When you imagine winning the lottery, what does it look like?
How does your dream look?
Players’ lottery dreams can vary widely, from buying a private island to creating their own charity, but most dreams are a bit more common that most winners dream about. Here are a few of the most common lottery dreams players have.
- Financial Freedom: Many people dream of using their lottery winnings to finally achieve financial stability and security for themselves and their families. This involves paying off all debts, getting rid of mortgages and car loans, bringing all due bills up to date, putting money aside for the kids’ education, and investing to create money to live on day to day. Part of the freedom is never having to worry about paying their bills again.
- Travelling Around the World: A very common lottery dream is to travel to different countries and experience the landscape, culture, and food. Tours, sightseeing, historical places, performances, activities, adventures, and more could be a realization with the lottery dream. For jackpot winners, Italy, France, and other lands await their arrival.
- Luxurious Lifestyle: Many players dream of living a life of pure luxury. An expensive new car or two, a big house like a mansion, eating at very expensive upper-class restaurants, playing sports, attending wealthy social functions, schmoozing with important people or celebrities, buying the latest and greatest computer or smartphone, and indulging in toys and activities that now are within one’s reach. The dream of living the high-life is now attainable for them.
- Giving Back: Many lottery winners use their newfound wealth to give back to their communities and support charitable causes close to their hearts or with personal connections to themselves or family members. They also will help out some family members and friends to achieve their own goals such as going to school or affording a new appliance. It’s about spreading the joy and paying it forward for some winners.
- Entrepreneurial Ventures: Some individuals dream of starting their own businesses or investing in exciting entrepreneurial ventures like fast food franchises or opening a restaurant. They are now able to work for themselves instead of someone else.
- Education and Personal Growth: A few winners will use their jackpots to go back to school to obtain some higher education. Others will seek to learn new skills that they can apply to their own lives to increase their daily fun and excitement.
- Early Retirement: And of course one of the biggest dreams is retiring and never having to work again. Winning the lottery can bring the dream of now doing what they want to do everyday, not what they have to do everyday. Time now can be put towards the enjoyment of hobbies, trying new experiences, and simply just enjoying life without the burden of going to work everyday.
Yes, winning the lottery can be the best thing to happen to a person. The ability of not having to work ever again, combined with the newfound opportunity to do what one wants when one wants, is a dream that can actually come true for lottery winners.